If the DNC weren't going to try to muscle him out they will now, AIPAC will command them to do it.
I think "Jewish politician comes to Muslim politician's defense after she's accused of antisemitism by both political parties for wanting to talk about AIPAC" is a pretty good summary of what discussion of Israel has come to in our current political climate
The only politician willing to criticise Israel is Jewish himself. God, don't lose Bernie!
As the front-runner, the only way he's losing is if someone extremely charismatic and revolutionary sweeps the rug out from under him. That's kind of how it works.
Except he's the most revolutionary in the running as well as being the current front-runner; an unusual and extremely powerful combination.
2016 just called...
Or 2016 can happen again, and he will be forced to swim upstream because the DNC doesn't want to make it easy.
He was totally unknown at this point in 2015, now he has the second most name recognition of anyone running, besides Biden.
Bernie wasn't the front runner in 2016...
Hillary was, and she was nearly upstaged by -- you guessed it -- a charismatic revolutionary
Biggest risk is that Biden runs. Biden's only real asset is that he is very well-known, but that is effective as a political strategy as we saw last time.
I called my representative today to voice support for Rep. Omar, so I'm personally claiming credit if the democrats don't go through with the new antisemitism bill.
Israel fucking frighten me. No other country has such a strong grip on the UK or US. People wonder why Israel is given "special treatment" compared to like Russia or Turkey and it's because you can criticize those countries all day long and no one will ever give you shit for it, bad mouth Israel once and you get outcast from politics, your name is dragged through the mud, you're labelled some sort of huge racist and the amount of vile hate thrown your way from other politicians is frankly absurd. No other country does it have huge efforts to make it impossible in boycotting nor does any other country have it's diplomats boasting about plotting against possible "anti Israel" politicans in the west and influencing major parties to be extremely pro Israel.
Damn, that's a risky move but it just goes to show that Bernie really is a man of principles.
Whooosh.
See:
The issue is that he doesn't have the benefit of being the only good choice out of two that we had last time, or the only Democratic Socialist, as the movement he started has several of its members now running. I hope Bernie wins, but I don't think he's necessarily in a better position than in 2015. If Biden runs it'd also be a massive uphill climb at best, as Biden is like Hillary if anyone actually liked her.
I know he's going to run but I really wish he'd come out and not do that too
Care to elaborate?
On the broader scale of things, I really feel like AIPAC overplayed their hand in this whole situation and might end up paying for it long term. Groups like it tend to operate best when they are under the majority of people's radar, so having their efforts be publicized to this degree is probably not the best outcome.
Yeah I think this is the silver lining, in addition to the left being forced to contend with foreign policy issues before 2020. I was surprised to see even bastions of enlightened centrism like /r/politics soundly in Omar's corner. I think this has drawn a ton of attention to the Israeli lobby's outsized influence in Washington while simultaneously exposing the lack of any real support for their policy in the constituency.
Stealing that.
If the DNC uses this to paint him as a terrible figure, it will be 2016 all over again.
Maybe I'm completely off base, but I can see Harris posing a threat too. Not because she's a good idea, but because she seems like she'd be the one the DNC establishment most likely want.
Yeah, that's true.
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